An ‘absurd amount’: Fani Willis squawks about legal fees her office is obligated to pay
Fani Willis, the local prosecutor in Fulton County, Ga., had no concerns about costs when she hired a paramour for some $700,000 and assembled organized crime claims against President Donald Trump and a long list of codefendants.
The defendants ended up spending some $17 million to protect themselves from her claims.
But suddenly it’s different for Willis, as a state law that provides the prosecuting attorney’s office pay the costs for defendants when the prosecutor in their case is removed for cause, as Willis was.
She is demanding that her office not be required to follow that law.
In fact, she’s openly defying it, as a document in Fulton County’s court system states her office “has no intention of allowing Fulton County taxpayers” to pay those legal costs, as the state law stipulates.
And, she complains, it’s an “absurd amount.”
She says her justification is that paying what the law requires could use up a “significant percentage (perhaps all)” of her annual budget.
Fani Willis pushed back against President Trump and his former codefendants’ effort to recover nearly $17 million in legal fees following the collapse of her 2020 election interference case, warning it could consume her office’s fiscal budget https://t.co/OAejfbTHVY
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 13, 2026
Fani Willis abused her power as Fulton County DA to launch a witch hunt against President Trump.
Now, she doesn’t want to pay President Trump back the $17M in legal fees she owes, claiming it’d wipe out her budget.
When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. pic.twitter.com/JDTCd6JdB5
— Clay Fuller (@Clay4MainStreet) February 12, 2026
The Washington Examiner explained the president is seeking about $6.2 million in attorney fees, and the other 18 defendants in Willis’ case spent another $11 million.
The publication outlined, “The fee demands stem from a Georgia law passed last year that allows criminal defendants to seek reimbursement for legal costs if the prosecuting district attorney is disqualified from the case. Willis was removed after courts found that her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created an ‘appearance of impropriety’ and exhibited an ‘odor of mendacity.’ The Georgia Supreme Court earlier declined to hear her appeal of that decision.”
Willis’ case ended up being dismissed entirely.
Her court submission claims, “The defendants are asking that the District Attorney’s budget and the taxpayers’ funds be handed over to the Trump Campaign and the Georgia Republican Party for expenses including luxury hotels and seafood lunches.”
She claims to be astonished at expenses like research, high-end travel, meals and more.
Willis’ original indictment focused on a January 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Willis claimed Trump asked Reaffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn his narrow loss in the state.
Joe Biden won the race by about 12,000 votes, and evidence obtained since that fight has confirmed that more than 300,000 ballots were counted for which there was no confirmation they were valid. Further, there were some 20,000 more absentee ballots counted than people who cast absentee ballots in the state.
WorldNetDaily had reported when Trump’s lawyers submitted their expenses to the count. The state law allows people whose prosecutors are disqualified to recover “all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred.”
In fact, Willis had hired her paramour to be a special prosecutor against Trump, paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars and taking exotic trips with him. First, a judge ruled that the special prosecutor had to be removed from the case, then a ruling determined Willis and her entire office had to be removed because of her behavior. And the case was dismissed.
Trump seeks to be reimbursed for legal expenses in Fani Willis case, based on recent Georgia law https://t.co/c3uHVYgbwQ
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 8, 2026
Trump seeks more than $6M from Fani Willis’ office in wake of election interference case https://t.co/pCzCipVL2w #FoxNews
— Joni Myers (@JoniMyers18) January 8, 2026
BREAKING: President Donald Trump is seeking more than $6.2 million from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office to cover his attorney fees and litigation costs in the recently dismissed criminal election interference case.
MORE: https://t.co/Afniex1l2o pic.twitter.com/FOMqoTFdcu— Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) January 7, 2026
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lawyer in the case, in which Willis wildly claimed there was an organized crime conspiracy going on, said, “In accordance with Georgia law, President Trump has moved the Court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in his defense of the politically motivated, and now rightfully dismissed, case brought by disqualified DA Fani Willis.”
The total requested is $6,261,613,08 and a judge now will have to review that and make a determination.
Previously Willis battled the law, claiming she doesn’t want to follow it.
Another person charged in the case already had submitted a request for reimbursement and she filed a statement claiming the law raises concerns about separation of powers “by purporting to impose financial liability on a constitutional officer, twice elected by the citizens of Fulton County, for the lawful exercise of her core duties under the Georgia Constitution.”
The motion doesn’t explain how her constitutional core duties involve hiring a paramour at taxpayer expense to attack the president.
She’s also been grilled by state officials about her anti-Trump agenda and its results:
BREAKING: Fani Willis goes BERZERK when asked how much she paid her lover Nathan Wade while she prosecuted Trump
“Why don’t you investigate how many times they called me the N WORD?! Why don’t you investigate that?”
She’s guilty.pic.twitter.com/A7gcY2k2PQ
— Jack (@jackunheard) December 17, 2025
Fani Willis allowed her boy toy Nathan Wade to bill 160 hours a week during the sham prosecution of President Trump.
160 hours per week. pic.twitter.com/TgpzvEyvHT
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) December 17, 2025
The Trump case is finally dead, but Fani Willis left taxpayers on the hook for millions
Cough it up: President follows law, asks Fani Willis to reimburse him $6.2 million for legal fees